US warship 'catches fire in Persian Gulf'

PressTV ^

[esryle]

A vessel belonging to the US Navy has reportedly caught fire in the northern Persian Gulf near the Iraqi port cities of Al-Bakr and al-Amaya.

Informed military sources said on Monday that the UN Navy had secretly moved the vessel to the coasts of Kuwait after the fire broke out, Iran's Arabic-language TV channel Al-Alam reported.

The sources did not rule out the possibility that a blast had started the fire on the vessel that was said to be "one of the four US warships in the region," the report added.

The US military has not yet commented on the report.

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[theDentist]

Informed military sources said on Monday that the UN Navy had secretly moved the vessel to the coasts of Kuwait

I didn't know the UN had a Navy.

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump

[Ramius]

What’s this?

[ClearCase_guy]

The sources did not rule out the possibility that a blast had started the fire on the vessel that was said to be "one of the four US warships in the region," the report added.

Don't make me diagram that sentence!

[brownsfan]

“I didn’t know the UN had a Navy.”

It will when Obama is elected, ours.

[SE Mom]

This may be something...or nothing- FYI

[esryle]

Not much to go on, im still looking for another source...

[buccaneer81]

Iran's Arabic-language TV channel Al-Alam reported.

Consider the source.

[DoughtyOne]

This doesn’t sound good. Hope this report turns out to be way overblown.

[epluribus_2]

Supposed to have waited until “the One” (il-Wahhid) was innaugurated, sheesh. Think W would be easy on the persians if they hit one of our ships, out of fairness for the electoral process here?

[Pantera]

Maybe this is what Biden was talking about this morning... and our enemies are getting started early. j/k

[GOPJ]

ping

[DoughtyOne]

Actually, I think Bush would go postal. Good point. I also like the comment about not waiting until after ‘Smokin Joe’ and ‘Sparkey’ were elected. That would be a serious miscalculation.

[Steely Tom]

Iran has probably put high-energy laser weapons aboard those robot drone airplanes they used to get close-range images of one of our aircraft carriers earlier this year.

They used the laser to set fire to one of our ships. Good thing they didn’t turn up the power a little more and melt the entire vessel.

/s (I wish I didn’t have to add)

[Berlin_Freeper]

“...Navy had secretly moved the vessel to the coasts of Kuwait after the fire broke out, Iran's Arabic-language TV channel Al-Alam reported.”

They should have moved it towards Iran.

[afnamvet]

This appears to be something right out of the bowels of the Iranian press.

[Peter Horry]

Iran has now deployed their top secret “giant magnifying glass” weapon.

[Artemis Webb]

This story has more holes than a sponge.